[wally b]

What I don’t understand is how you can do a rope and pully hitch with 3 and 4. It looks like the near horse in the rear is hooked directly to the evener. Wouldn’t that horse be pulling against the two horses on the other arm of the evener? And then there would be an imbalance of 3 on the left pulling against 4 on the right. Am I missing something?

wally b
oregon

[wally b]

I just say your post today. I would guess that your horse power is a “Kelly” make. Several years ago there was an article by a man who collected horsepowers in the SFJ. I corresponded with him for a while but he is probably deceased now. He said that the Kelly power was the only one that ran 14 head. All the other big ones ran 12.

At one time he said he had over 12 sweep powers.

I have a 8 horse and a team power.

wally

[wally b]

I answer this since no one else has. The problem is probably in th cutter bar. Dull knife, ledgers, or gaurds that are bent and so worn that they plug, esp in fine grass. The knife points needs to run on the ledgers like sharp scissors working together. Clogs on the inner shoe side can be from a poorly ajusted grass board and other things. outer shoe clogs can be solved with a two headed sickle section at the outer most position on the knife.

I rebuilt my cutter bars with swather guards and ajustable hold downs. Also put topless guards near the inner shoe. Had very little clogging. Contact Midway repair, in Dalton Ohio for fast service/parts.

wally

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